UPDATE: I Have Experienced My Mortality Face to Face

I just discovered this draft from 2011. Not too dissimilar from what I just went through, Feb. 2017.


I have just returned home from a stay in the intensive care unit at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.  I experienced a number of infections that caused my heart rate to rise to as high as 155, a white blood cell count of 30,000 something and a blood pressure that was 50's over 70's.  I just returned Sunday (today is Wed.),and it's just hitting me how very sick I really was.  Much of my family was at my beside.  I heard today that my home health aide nurse was told I might not be coming home.  Bottom-line: I was dying.